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Engineering:

Engineering is a systematic and often iterative approach to designing objects, processes, and systems to meet human needs and wants.*


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Engineering Everywhere is a free curriculum from the Museum of Science, Boston.  Use this website for great ideas on how to incorporate engineering into your middle school class.
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Trash for Teaching is a website emphasizes the importance of reusing common materials that get thrown away everyday.  Use their website to find lessons that focus mainly on middle school and high school physics.
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This collection of lessons, activities, and web resources aims to help educators, students, and students' families learn more about engineering. Some of these resources come from the National Science Digital Library (NSDL). 
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Nasa Educators is a digital collection of Earth and space science resources for educators of all levels - from elementary to college.
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Try Engineering is a website that that provides lesson plans for both physical and life sciences.  
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This is from the American Society for Engineering Education.  Their goal is to promote and enhance efforts to improve k-12 STEM and engineering education. Click on for teachers.
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Teach Engineering is a searchable website that includes engineering curricula for k-12 education. Their goal is to make science and math come alive!
* National Research Council. (2012). A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas. Committee on a Conceptual Framework for New K-12 Science Education Standards. Board on Science Education, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

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